A review by jurizprudence
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

 no words could encompass how much i loved reading—consuming this book, the prose ingrained to it, the love letters that red and blue sent to each other from across years, centuries, millennia. their love story is so pure, i can't help but be awed and carried away by it. i did sob a few times because of how gorgeously the prose is written and how red and blue's yearning for each other is made genuine. i devoured it in less than a day, which is such a pleasant surprise, given that i am a slow reader—tho it's also just under 200 pages. i just know that years from now, i would find my self longing to read this again, and i would do so. it is a book that i don't want to forget, but at the same time, would offer my first child to be able to read again for the first time. seeing that the latter is not possible due to several reasons, i will just suffice myself by the promise of reading this again and again for the yearning and anguish and all the emotions in between. it is that beautiful.